The daily grind: 5-16-13

The Daily Grind provides daily match-up advice for tinkerers and daily fantasy players. I welcome advice to help make this column more effective, including notice of impending weather events, new injuries, and changes to platoon situations. Ownership rates are from Yahoo!

The daily picks are a mixture of Daily League specific advice and information for the more typical fantasy owner.

Noteworthy news

Francisco Rodriguez is expected to join the Brewers soon. Don’t expect him to take over the closer’s gig immediately. In fact, I wouldn’t speculate on him unless you’re in desperate need of saves or don’t have any other use for the roster spot.

Yasmani Grandal is starting his minor league assignment and is expected to return to the Padres May 28. He will likely platoon with Nick Hundley until he can prove himself.

Weather watch

The Mets and Cardinals might see thunderstorms, but otherwise the coast is clear.

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Thanks. I appreciate the advice and agree for the most part. I just don’t know if Lind’s or Gattis’ 3 or 4 starts may produce more counting stats than a full week of Hosmer & Moss. I think I’ll roll the dice with McLouth and Lind and just hope for the best. Machado, Beltran and Kinsler should keep me competitive either way. Have a good one!